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A. H. PAPE LLAPSIBLE ToPs 0F AUTOMOBILES INTO CLOSED TOPS MEANS FORCONVERTING CO l Original Filed Oct. 27

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A. H. PAPE MEANS FOR CONVERTING COLLAPSIBLE T-OPS OF AUTOMOBILES ,INTOCLSED TOPS- I5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Original Filed Oct. 27. 1919 VvE/vrai? Afr PAPE April 29 1924.

A. H. PAPE MEALS FOR COVEHZTING COLLAPASIBLE TOPS OF AUTOMOBILES INTOCLOSEDYTOPS Grginal Filed Oct. 27. 3 Sheets-She 3 F/EZ /NVENTP- ReumaApr. 29, 1924. Re. 15,827 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST E. PAPE, OF XENTFIELD, CALIFORNIA, ASSIG-NOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNEASSIGNMENTS, T0 ALLAN LARKINS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, DOINGBUSINESS AS LARKIN TOP &v NOVELTY CO.

HEANS FOR CONVERTING COLLAPSIBLE TOPS OF AUTOMOBILES INTO CLOSED TOPS.

Original No. 1,383,908, dated December 28, 1920, Serial No. 883,441, ledOctober 27, 1919. Application for reissue led Hay 1, 1922. Serial No.557,812.

To all whom it may concern.' whole length of the car, and the other eX-Be it known that I, AUGUST H. PAPE, a tends forwardly just beyond thefront wincitizen of the United States, residin at dow of the car, asshown ,at 9 in Figs. 1 and Kenteld, in the county of Marin and tatel 7.Said .rails are secured to said presser l of California, have inventednew and useful bar by long screws 11, screwed through said Im rovementsin Means for Converting presser bar and into said rods. Upon saidCoapsible Tops of Automobiles into Closed rails can travel slide blocks12, each formed Tops, of which the following is a speciat the top with alongitudinally extending fication. recess 13 curved concavely on itsopposite 10 The object of the present invention is to sides to litsnugly against the convex sides provide means for converting acollapsible of the rails. to of an automobile into a closed top. Eachblock is formed with a central n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1socket extending upwardly from its lower is a broken side view of theupper portion side and meeting said longitudinally extendof ankautomobile; Fig. 2 is a cross section ing recess yand threaded in itsupper portion thereof on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 looking and in thethreaded upper portion of said forwardly; Fig. 3 is a broken side viewof socket is screwed a plug 14. The under side a part of theapparatuswhich I use for of said plu bears against the upper surface convertingthe top of the automobile into a of the hea 16 of a screw 17, saidscrews closed to Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional being placed in saidsocket from the top view of a portion of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a and screwedin the frame 15 of a window sectional view of parts shown in Fig. 4, 18,the lower side of said frame being slidlookin at right an les to Fig. 4;Fig. 6 able upon the upper edge of the car body. is a p an view of teautomobile top, the Springs 21 are secured to the presser bar coverbeing removed, showin also the arand to pms 22 extending between theplates rangement whereby the win ows are conand normally raise saidpresser bar, thereby verted into a rear wind shield; Fig.V 7 is raisingthe rails and also the windows by a plan view of a portion of saidapparatus; reason of the heads of the screws being con- Flg. 8 is apartial transverse section thru fined within the sockets. It resultsfrom the car showing the window converted into this construction that,when the window is a rear wind shleld; Fig. 9 is a broken rear beingmoved, its lower edge is free from the view of a rear portion of thecar; Fig. 10 upper edge of the car body. When, howis a sectional view ofa modified form of ever, it has been moved to'the position detrack.sired, the presser bar is de ressed to rest Referring to the drawing, 1indicates the upon the ed e of the car bo y by means of cloth top of anopen car and 2 the bows an arm 26 3 and 5) extendin from thereo Securedwithin said top, on each a shaft 27 mounted in the pair of oards side,and extending parallel with the side of or plates and carrying a handle28 consaid top, is a palr of boards or plates 3, venie'nt for operationby a person within formin the foundation of my: improved the car. Uponturning said handle, said means ger conversion. The lower edges of armisdepressed, pressing down upon the said plates are straight andhorizontal and center portion of a long spring 23 attached e upper edgesthereof are curved to conat its ends to the presser bar 7, therebyproform to the longitudinal curvature of the viding resilient pressureon said presser bar top of the car. Said plates are secured to andprevent rattling and equalizing the the bows 2 by angle irons 5 andscrews 6. pressure, and pressing the windows down Between each pair ofplates is a metal upon the edge of the car body so that said lian 45stiil'ening a longitudinal presser windows are held firmly in position.bar which as shown may support tracks At the rear end, the plates ofeach pair or rails 8, said tracks consisting of round are spaced fromeach other by a sleeve 30 rods extendin longitudinally of the car.around a bolt 31 which passes through a One of said tracks or railsextends the vertically elongated hole 32 in the rear part of the presserbar, to allow the support to move freely vertically while preventing itslongitudinal movement.

At the front end, the are spaced from each ot er by a block 33suiiiciently wide that the plates are spaced sufiicientl far apart topermit the support to move reely therebetween.

I am able to utilize the rear windows for a rear wind shield by notextending the inner rail the whole length of the car. For this purpose,the rear window is moved forwardly until the front slide block 12 escaes from the forward end of the innerra 9, then the rear window is turnedabout its rear slidey block, which is still suspended from the rail, andcan turn freely, and the screw head turns in the block remaining on therail, until it extends in a transverse direction to the car, then thefront block is caused to engage a single rail 38 suspended a cross beam39 and extending trans'- versely in the middle portion of the car only ashort distance. The ends of said cross beam 38 are passed throughsuiciently large holes in the inner plates 3 and are secured in thepresser bar 7 between the pairs of plates.

40 indicates a stop at the front end of the outside rail, or track, toprevent the slide blocks from moving oill said rail. 41 indicates a pinor stop for limiting the upl ward movement of the presser bar 7 due tothe action of the s rings 21.

In the form o track and presser bar shown in .Fi 10, the rails are madeof a pressed meta 43 fastened by screws 44 to the support 7 of thetrack.

In order to securely attach thevwindow 18 to its supporting screw 17,there is interposed between the sides of the sheet metal frame 15 of thewindow an extrapiece of metal 20, which, being pinned to the sheet metalframe b the pins 25,'serves to connect the'top 51de of the sheet metallframe to the vertical sides, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This extra ieceof metal also provides additional bo y for the screws 17 to be screwedinto.

I claim:

1. The combination with an automobile body and a top therefor, of guidessecured to the top, substantially horizontal presser bars movable up anddown between the guides, means for yieldingly holding said presser barsin up position, windows movable longitudinally over the body andmanually operated means for depressing the presser barsV and applying ayielding and holding pressure to the windows.

2. In an automobile, the combination of a window, the lower edge ofwhich is" adjacent to theupper edge of the body of the automobile, alongitudinal track, the upper edge of the window being provided withpllates of each pair means adapted to slide along said track, means forraisin said track to raise the lower edge of t e window from off theupper edge of said automobile body, and means for depressing said trackto press said lower edge against the upper edge of said body.

3. In an automobile, the combination of a window, the lower edge ofwhich is adjacent to the upper edge of the body of the automobile, alongitudinal presser bar, the upper edge of the window being providedwith means adapted to slide along said bar, means for` resilientlyraising said bar to raise the lower edgeof the window from o the uppered e of said automobile body, and means for epressing said bar to presssaid lower edge against the upper edge of said body.

4. In combination with the top of an automobile and a frame therefor,guides `secured to said frame in said top, a presser bar movable upV anddown relative to said guides, window tracks secured to said presserbar,springs for raising said presser bar and means for depressing saidpresser bar against said sprlngs.

5. VIn combination of an automobile, of a guide secured to said top, apresser bar movable u and down with respect to the guide, win owsslidable longitudinally with relation to the body sprmgs for raisingsaid presser bar and manually operated means for exerting a resilientpressure on thevbars at a plurality of points against the action of saidsprings, tov old th'ewndows against sliding.

6. In combination wlth the top and body of an automobile, of a guidesecured to the to a presser bar movable up and down wit `respect to theide, a window slidable longitudinally relative to the body and top,resilient means for raising said presser bar and manually operated meansforY applying a resilient pressure on the bar against the action of thesprings and depressing said bar to hold the windows against sliding.

7. The combination with the top and ody elements of an automobile, of apresser bar movable u and down with relation to the top, a windowslidable between the top and body, spring means operatively associatewith the top and arranged so as to normally lift the window from thebody and means for depressing the presser bar to apply pressure to thewindow to hold it against sliding.

8. The combination with the top and 'body elements of an automobile, ofa presser bar movable u and down relative Yto the top, a window s idablebetween the to and body, spring means normally lifting t e window andpresser bar and means for depressing the presser bar so as to apply a`holding pressure to the window.

with the top and body ill) looY

'body elements of an automobile, of a window slidable between the topand body elements, spring means operatlvely associated with the top andnormally sup orting the window in position to ermit ree sliding of thewindow, a presser ar movable a inst action of said spring means intopositlon to apply a yielding pressure to the window and manuallyoperated means for so moving said 2o presser bar.

AUGUST H. PAPE.

